bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: My Five Homesteading Goals for 2018Love your ideas/goals. It's surprising how similar most goals are for many homesteaders. Water collection is one thing…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: My 5 Homesteading goals for 2018Thank you - my resolve is to try and post daily. So hopefully will post my successes and failures, also to try and…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Avian Influenza in the UKThank you and thank you for your vote. There does seem to be a more positive attitude towards AI this year and the…bellecrosshens (51)in #blog • 7 years agoRE: Life gets in the wayThank you.It's good to be back, feels like normality has resumedbellecrosshens (51)in #blog • 7 years agoRE: Life gets in the wayThank you.xbellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Back into Lay - Bellecross Belles olive eggers.Yes with auto sexing on hatching you can identify the males from the females.Much depends on the strain/line of the…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Weekly Chicken Gazette Issue 16🐓They are looking really well. Mine are at various stages of moult. They range from oven ready or moth eaten to pristine and fabulous :-)bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Building a Small Farm - Future PlansHow exciting - a few years ago I would have loved to have such an amazing project. Sadly and realistically I'm not…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Poultry catch up - Winter routine and care:Like wise, a couple of the netted pens last year weren't waterproof and we spent much time, effort and money on…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Poultry catch up - Winter routine and care:I usually free range my birds all year round rotating the pens so always having at least one pen and house resting.…bellecrosshens (51)in #photography • 7 years agoRE: Seven Days, Seven Pictures of My Life in Black & White. Day 1Super photobellecrosshens (51)in #gardening • 7 years agoRE: A Gardening Project - The Alpine Butler's SinksThey look great and when you move to your farm, if you tire of them, they make great drinkers/feeders for pigsbellecrosshens (51)in #colorchallenge • 7 years agoRE: Color challenge - Thursday - GreenThank you. I think the sunlight catching them helps, also plenty of leave mould :-)bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: I'm back - sort of. Poultry and Gardening catch upThank you. The olive eggers are super, such great characters. They are from a Welsummer cockerel Cream Legbar hen…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: I'm back - sort of. Poultry and Gardening catch upThank you - yes hopefully all's sorted. Now I need to catch up on everyone's posts.Must make the most of this glorious…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Bruce - A Whole New Chicken Breeding Programme for 2018Looking forward to the updates, it will be interesting to see the off spring of a Bruce / Silkie mating :-) Good luck…bellecrosshens (51)in #nature • 7 years agoRE: Autumn in details.Beautiful - it captures the feeling of autumn perfectlybellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Wildlife or predator - FoxesYes I think a flock of geese would group together and see a fox off but as a brooding pair mine were vulnerable.bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Guinea Fowl - from hatching to 8 weeks and independence in video clipsVery hardy and independent.Easier to rear with a hen rather than a broody as like all game can be slightly uptight and…bellecrosshens (51)in #homesteading • 7 years agoRE: Wildlife or predator - FoxesNo I'm afraid not.I lost a sitting goose to a fox and also her mate trying to protect her.Now everyone is behind electric fencing.